Flexible Multifunctional Aromatic Polyimide Film: Highly Efficient Photoluminescence, Resistive Switching Characteristic, and Electroluminescence

We report a flexible multifunctional aromatic polyimide (BTDBPI) that shows yellow–green fluorescence with high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 30% in the film state. The nonvolatile “write once–read many” (WORM) characteristic in a memory device with the configuration of ITO/BTDBPI/Au indicates that BTDBPI possesses organic semiconductor behavior. Moreover, polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) with the structure of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/BTDBPI/TPBI/Mg–Ag exhibits an interesting dual-emission phenomenon that originates from the electroluminescence (EL) of the BTDBPI nanometer film (yellow–green, 525 nm) and TPBI (deep blue, 380 nm), demonstrating that BTDBPI shows both the charge-transporting and EL properties.